REVIEW: Wreck Me by Jessica Sorensen

When Avery Hensley met Conner Wellings, she thought she’d found the guy she was going to spend the rest of her life with. She got married young and had the most beautiful son in the world. Life seemed perfect. But not everything is what it seems.

Turned out Conner had another side to him, a darker side that Avery didn’t see coming. He wrecked and broke her into a thousand pieces, leaving Avery to put herself back together. From then on, Avery vows never to let a man into her life again.

But then she meets Tristan Morganson. He’s sweet and sexy and wrecks Avery in a different way than Conner did, the kind of way that makes her feel alive again, the kind of way that makes her think maybe not all guys are bad.

But can Avery trust him enough to let her walls come crumbling down?

 *Can be read as a standalone.*

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Tristan Morganson and Avery Hensley – two people whose lives were wrecked due to the paths that they chose for themselves.

Two people who lost the desire to live and were willing to succumb to the pain if only they didn’t have to feel like disappointments or damaged.

Two people who are brought back but don’t quite understand why and constantly struggle with their sobriety and keeping their demons at bay.

Two people whose paths cross in the most unexpected ways and find reason in one another to fight through the guilt and the torment and find a new direction in their lives – one that will take them to a place they’re not sure they can go but one that continues to pull them together whether they want to be or not.

Wreck Me takes readers through Tristan and Avery’s pasts and sheds light on what has led them to the lives they are currently living, and even though they do not cross paths in their pasts nor deal with the same type of addiction, there are many similarities between the struggles they endure and the feelings of self loathing that consume them, leading them both into dark and dangerous lifestyles.

In the present, both Tristan and Avery are clean and sober, fighting every day to not be their own worst enemies. Their lives intersected three months before, and ever since that day, they haven’t been far from each other’s minds, and as much as Avery tries to keep her distance from Tristan and stick to her no guys’ rule, when they meet back up, their mutual attraction is something that can’t be denied.

Tristan and Avery are both searching for answers and praying that their nightmares go away; they need purpose and salvation, and they might just have found it in each other, but they have to be willing to put themselves out there again and risk the chance of being wrecked again – but this time, if everything works out, the wreckage will actually result in positive outcomes instead of negative, which is all Tristan and Avery have ever wanted their lives to be.

Wreck Me is a story about second chances…a story of redemption…a story filled with darkness as well as the hope of light, waiting to break free. It’s a story about not letting the past define who one is in the present and grabbing hold of a future that may not be clearly defined but it’s one that will undoubtedly be so much better than the hellishness of the past. It’s about finding one’s way out of the wreckage and learning to live again for oneself and for those who willingly stand by and lift them up instead of bringing them down.

Tristan and Avery’s story may not be an easy read but it’s one that offers up even in the most deplorable of situations, and that alone makes it a good read.

A complimentary copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

4 poison apples